Fourthly , That though a Proclamation was published in Ireland , for searching the houses of all Roman Catholiques for Arms , yet when the SHERIFF of the County of GALWAY went in pursuance thereof to search the Earl of CLANRICKARDS house , where as he was informed all the Papists in that County had lodged their Arms , the said Earl produced a Warrant from my Lord LIEUTENANT the Duke of ORMONDE that his house should not be searched , Which Article althô it be placed in page the 27th of the LIBELL yet for order sake is ranked and taken notice of here with the others of page the 17th in the Libell , because it is of the same nature , and of the like truth with them : For my Lord Duke of ORMONDE was so far from granting a Warrant to that Earl to hinder his house from being searched for Arms , that He never so much as gave him a Licence to keep any , but contrarywise where the Earl of ESSEX in his Government had given the said Earl his Licence to keep a quantity of Arms , they were since by my Lord Duke of ORMOND 'S Orders taken from him , and delivered into the publick stores .

Lastly , he alleadges , That yet while all this forbearance and tenderness have been expressed to the PAPISTS , the DISSENTERS have fallen under the misfortune of having an express Law made against them , and divers of them have been prosecuted to Fine and Imprisonment upon it . Wherein the LIBELLER shews his Ignorance as well as his Malice , for although the Statute of 2d . Eliz . for the Uniformity of Common-Prayer in this Kingdom ( Which is without doubt against the PAPISTS , and who are frequently prosecuted upon it ) should by construction be extended unto the DISSENTERS , ( as I never heard it to be so Adjudged in the Case of any of them , so far are They from having been Prosecuted notwithstanding their openly numerous and frequent Meetings ) yet was there never any Particular express Law made against Them either before , or as the LIBELLER wou'd have it believed , since the KINGS Restauration , And as that too moderate Act of 2d . Elizab . be all that is in Force against the PAPISTS , or that can be supposed to be against the DISSENTERS , so it is to be wished that for the quiet of the Kingdom , more and severer Laws were made against both . And this brings me to the latter part of my Assertion , that as most of the LIBELLERS instances of the Lenity shewn the PAPISTS and of the severity extended to the DISSENTERS in this Kingdom , since the KINGS restauration are invented , which I hope I have fully proved to you , so that none of them can be reasonably charged upon the present Government , which I think , I shall be able very easily and briefly to shew you , For all the LIBELLER observes with semblance of truth , and which looks like an Objection in that point as to this GOVERNMENT against which he levels it , is , that there hath not any Laws been made against the PAPISTS in Ireland since the Kings return , save one against their living in Wall'd Towns .

But if the method of enacting Laws in Ireland be thought upon , how that by Poynings Act the Chief Governour cannot call a Parliament , for the making of Laws in that Kingdom , before he prays the King and Councils leave for it , and transmits some Bills for their Approbation to be passed in it , and untill he receives those Bills back again with Licence for the calling of a Parliament , and if it be Consider'd that my LORD LIEUTENANT the Duke of ORMOND since his being here , hath REPEATEDLY prayed such Licence , and Transmitted Bills , whereof some were as effectual against the PAPISTS ( although there were none among them against other DISSENTERS ) as cou'd be devised , and that he and the Kingdom were disappointed therein , by the oppositions of some Persons who are mightily extoll'd by the LIBELLER , that objection of there being no more Laws against the PAPISTS cannot in the least affect this Government , especially in the person of the Duke of ORMOND , neither can his Grace be thought to be concerned in the letter of suspension of , or dispensation with the Law against PAPISTS living in wall'd Towns , which the LIBELLER mentions ; that being procured and executed when the Lord BERKLY was Governour , no more than he is to be responsible if the Orders for the taking off that suspension which the LIBELLER passes over with silence , and which were grounded upon the Address of the House of Commons in England , were not as effectually , as they shou'd be put in execution here , they happening to come Over hither in the time of the Earl of Essex's Government .

After the LIBELLER has thus , as in a false Artificial Glass , which is able to make the best faces look deformed , misrepresented our GOVERNOUR and others co-operating with him for the KINGS service in the Government , and as he fancies has by his traducements of them rendred the worst of things , which he the worst of Men can feign to be believed concerning them : he proceeds to page the 40th , and from having before endeavoured to asperse them as if they shou'd by his fictitious indulgences to the PAPISTS incourage them in the old POPISH PLOT ; He there advances and in effect charges them with being ABETTORS with them in the new fangled PROTESTANT PLOT ; But the persons he names for support of this Charge are some of them , so ridiculously Idle , and others of them so notoriously wicked , and the instances he brings for proof of it , are all of them so manifestly false , that if the LIBELLER were not possest with a singular spirit of folly as well as of lying , he wou'd never have mention'd them , for as to SMITH who I find to be the first of the persons named , he is such an abject wretch , and so great a malefactor , and even in the Goal , where he has most deservedly layn for a great while , and still lies , do's daily appear so vicious a thing , that he had been only fit for the Laws to take notice of , were it not for the nature of the Information he gave in , which Authority wou'd not pass over without examining , for be it known unto the LIBELLER and to all such whose turn he wou'd serve , and under whose pay he writes , that those in GOVERNMENT here , are as apprehensive of Dangers as they can be ; Though not as inventive of them as they , for this only reason , are , because not in GOVERNMENT there ; Therefore of the great sholes of Informations brought in here , since the first discovery of the Plot , and which tended to the proof of it , not one was ever rejected , althô coming from the vilest of Men . And therefore when that of SMITH against the Priest St. LAWRANCE proffer'd it self at DUBLIN , it was immediately received and solemnly proceeded upon , the Lord PRIMATE who was then the first of the Council on the place , by the Lord LIEUTENANTS happening at that time to be in the Country , having conven'd such COUNCELLORS as were in the Town , and with them having given all necessary Orders in that affair , which produced the immediate apprehension of St. Lawrence , together with the seisure of his papers , and the Commitment of his Person , and SMITH had all the Encouragement fit to be given him in this his Discovery , insomuch thar if any persons , were found , reflecting upon his Evidence , they were reprimanded by the Magistracy for it , But this did not answer his end , in what he designed and expected by making such discovery , being no less than that he shou'd forwith be permitted to go out of prison upon the foot of it , Which there was no reason in the earth yet to allow him , until he had to satisfaction either proved his accusation of St. LAWRANCE upon his Tryal , or disproved others accusations of himself , and for which he was imprison'd , upon his own Tryal ; And therefore , he did betake himself unto another course , and to walk in the steps of some of his predecessors the IRISH evidences , who obtained their releasments out of prison in this Kingdom where they found they were too much known , by getting themselves to be sent for as Witnesses into ENGLAND where they were too little known ; For which purpose , according to the Mode of the times we are fallen into , he Prepares a NARATIVE with a letter to inclose it in , unto a BUSIE Person at LONDON in such matters , and by the assistance of , together with recomendatory letters from a half witted fellow and wretched RIMER of this Town ; gets them transmitted to him , who upon his receiving of them , and according to his accustomed manner of running headlong without weighing matters , or if he chance to do it , making the scales to light on that side which contains least truth , and is likeliest to make the greatest stir , conducts them with all speed and busle to WHITEHAL , and in hopes of having this fresh INFORMER or rather new Engine sent for over to work with , lodges them with Mr. Secretary JENKINS for the Information of the KING and COUNCIL , having most dutifully and mannerly taken especial care before to Print and publish them for the Amusement of the world ; but His MAJESTY and the Lords knowing this Conductor and his drift , too well , and experiencing such kind of Artifices as this Informer used , too much , wou'd not be so passed upon by them , and yet at the same time were pleased so far to take notice of those Papers , as to send them over hither with Orders to proceed upon them according to Law here , where the matter of them were properly Cognizable , and where preparations were made for St. Lawrence his being strictly prosecuted upon them , The KINGS Counsel having by order and with great circumspection formed a firm Indictment for misdemeanor ( which was all that in their Opinions the matter could bear ) to be preferred against him , and the Judges having carefully provided that no PAPIST nor any suspected to be POPISHLY affected shou'd pass upon the Tryal of him , which came on the last Michaelmas Term in the Kings Bench , Where a Jury all consisting of the strictest Protestants and ablest Citizens of the City of Dublin did appear , where SMITH had the greatest liberty and latitude afforded to him , and which he made use of in the proffering and management of his evidence , that any Court did ever give or Witness take , and where St. LAWRENCE ( whose person I know not , and whose profession I abominate , and therefore , you may be sure I speak impartially what was observed universally ) had nothing beyond meer Justice extended to him , and as a part thereof was that of Allowance of Counsel to plead for him , ( which the LIBELLER with more Malice than Law makes his Observation upon ) to be reckon'd , since he standing indicted for misdemeanor only , no Judicature cou'd have refused it to him Justly , so as all things seemed to concur , if not to have been calculated for St. LAWRENCES Condemnation , except SMITH himself , who by variety of villanies proved upon him in other Cases , which he cou'd not deny , and by many and palpable incoherences and contradictions that fell from him in this Case , which were not to be reconcil'd , did wholly prevent it , for they were the reasons that particularly swayed with the Jury to acquit St. LAWRENCE by their verdicts , and generally made all others who heard them , to do the like in their Judgments , and these were the motives , which made the Gentlemen of the long Robe ( as they have declared ) to forbear , because they were ashamed to appear on the behalf of such a blur'd and stellionated Creature , and none of those wild instances which the LIBELLER invents and mentions only to debase them , and to reflect upon Authority , and which it is to be observed he at once insinuates to be believed by others , and yet expresly says , he will not so much as conjecture them himself : so as he needed not in the Conclusion of this his fable of SMITH , have any more told us that he was no diviner , than I need tell you after all this that he is an idle Dreamer .

The next man our LIBELLER produces is JAMES MORLEY , whom he Stiles Captain MORLEY , though I know not for what reason , unless it be because of his appearing at the head of the band of IRISH WITNESSES , which sometime since Marched to LONDON , and of his drawing them up with what he would have them swear unto for him , but however true he may be in giving of that Title to him , I am sure he is most false in those things he relates of and possibly from him , and because the LIBELLER will not be long before he makes my words good ( though neither I nor all the World will ever be able to make his so ) he no sooner mentions the name of MORLEY , but as if it were a spell to raise a lye with , he falls plum into the telling of one concerning him , by introducing and expressing of him to have appeared and Sworn before the Committee of LORDS and COMMONS in England , two Consults which the Papists had in Ireland in reference to the extirpating the Protestant Religion in that Kingdom , whereas it appears by MORLEYS Examination taken either before a Committee of the LORDS , or of the COMMONS , or both , that he did not swear to those Consults , but only to a hearsay touching them ; which he said he had from HUBBERT TIRRELL and Henry ô Neal , who it is to be observed , were two Beggars , and such miscreants that an honest and a discerning PROTESTANT who knew them as well as MORLEY did , wou'd hardly have adventur'd to repeat any thing after them , much less to conduct what they shou'd say , unto publick assemblies , and in prejudice of any who was a PROTESTANT also , especially Considering that as it is well known MORLEY had such experience of their villanies , as before that time , he did reject their proferr'd Oaths to him in some Trial which he had in this Kingdom , however afterwards he became so reconcil'd to them , as in the last PARLIAMENT at Westminster to make use of their names for injuriously accusing of Sir JOHN DAVIS , a person who with all his Relations , have ever been eminent professors of the PROTESTANT Religion , and for that reason known to be obnoxious to the POPISH Party , and it is besides to be remarked that Tirrell has lately and solemnly disavowed his ever having known of any such Consults , and declared that what he had informed concerning them was a meer fiction , which as TYRRELL alledges MORLEY prompted and hired him to make , and to get others to swear unto for carrying on some designs of his own , and what is yet more remarkable ô NEAL ( who has lately hang'd for a Robbery in this KINGDOM ) did just before he was thrown off the Ladder , Confess himself to be perjured , both in what he deliver'd as to those CONSULTS , and in what he had sworn against Sir JOHN DAVIS , and that he was by MORLEYS desire led into the latter perjury , which Confession coming from one in the instant he was going to the dead , must be convincing with all but such who will not be perswaded tho one rose from the dead ; After the LIBELLER has thus begun and dispach'd this untruth of MORLEY , who has no reason to con him thanks for it , since it has provoked and produced the representation of these truths concerning him , he growes upon his own hands , and to shew his proficiency in the lying-trade , he proceeds to the delivery of a grosser falcity , in asserting , that six or seven witnesses have been procured to depose in this Kingdom , that MORLEY was suborned by the Earls of ESSEX and SHAFTSBURY , and by Sir ROBERT CLAYTON , to swear treason against the Duke of ORMONDE the Lord CHANCELLOR BOYLE and Sir JOHN DAVIS , whereas upon search in the Offices where things of that nature ( if any had been , ) wou'd be lodg'd , and upon inquiry from the Officers who cou'd not but know of them if they were there , it cannot be found that ever any one such deposition was taken , or so much as as heard of , but several Examinations ( and with probability of truth too considering the before mentioned proceeding of MORLEY ) do appear of his Contrivances of that kind with people of infinite lower ranks , and it is to be hoped of infinite different principles too , than it can be thought the Earls of ESSEX and SHAFTSBURY and Sir Robet CLAYTON are of , who the Lord Duke of ORMONDE and those named with him do not suppose wou'd Imbarque themselves with such a sort of man as MORLEY is , and in such manner of Designs as he was upon , so as the setting up of these imaginary depositions , which never had being but in this LIBELLER's idle brain , and in his Idler LIBELL , must have been a piece of MORLEY's magick , by such Incantations to charm those persons of Quality to stand by him in this time of his deservedly Expiring Credit , and to raise their Spirits ( thô most Undeservedly ) against others whom his and the LIBELLERS malice would point them unto , and whom ( though it be imposible to find them out by the mark the LIBELLER puts upon them , ) of having obtain'd those depositions , because there were never any such , yet by all this Lurry about Morley , I guess them to be certain persons of such uprightness and integrity as I am certain , they will not fear to have their Actions plac'd in that approaching light of a PARLIAMENT with which the LIBELLER threatens them , and which then shines brightest when MORLEY and the LIBELLER , and such other sons of darkness are scatter'd from before it , and thanks be to God , we have no reason to despair of a blessing of that kind to attend that time , for the weather seems to clear very much , and the aire to be so well upon Purifying , that those infections cannot remain . And as the LIBELLER has thus ingenuously in this Paragraph represented things that never were , so he will not leave it off untill he has as ingenuously misrepresented Matters otherwise than they were , according to the saying of Fame , the true Parent of this lying Monster , that pariter facta atque infecta canebat ; thus purposely to reflect upon persons concerned in this Government ( which the scope of his whole discourse as to Ireland drives at ) he wou'd from the receiving an Information which was given in here against MORLEY , for such treasonable expressions as are not fit to be repeated , but in a Judicial way of proceeding against him , and from the transmission which was made of it to the KING and COUNCIL in ENGLAND , infer a fondness , & I do not know what , to have been in them of it , whereas they did but as they were bound , in taking a matter of that dangerous import when it was offer'd , and as they wou'd have done , if it had related to any one else besides MORLEY , and only observed their duty and the Custome of their Predecessors in transmitting ( as they alwaies did ) things of such a transcendent nature , let them concern whomsoever they wou'd , And why this ordinary practis'd method in all other Cases , shou'd be thus extraordinarily handled and represented in MORLEY's by the LIBELLER , is what I cannot think of any other reason to be given for , but this , that he is a LIBELLER ; Besides , suppose it were true , as the LIBELLER says , ( and it is the only thing he says of affairs in IRELAND which supposition it self can help ) That at the time of this transmission as to MORLEY it was withal desir'd he shou'd be sent over hither to be Tried , where his Crime was supposed to be done . ( althô really no such thing was desired ) and that the KING had granted it , which He neither did , nor denyed , because no application was made for it , do's the LIBELLER believe himself ? or can he imagin any one else will believe him in , but laugh at him for , this his doctrine thereupon , That it were illegal and Arbitrary to send a Malefactor to be Tryed here for a fact committed by him here ; For surely that is as legal and looks something more reasonable than to send for persons from hence to be Tryed in England for things they are only charged to have Committed here , as we see has of late been practised , and which thô the Lawyers say may be done in this Case , I am sure no Lawyer will ever allow what the LIBELLER says in the other Case , especially , if no pertinenter a reason be given than this , which he assigns for it , because the party was born and bred and has an Estate in ENGLAND , For such Circumstances alone , can never protect any one in ENGLAND , or IRELAND , from answering for his breach of the Laws in either KINGDOM , and in that KINGDOM too , where he so broke them if the KING please to have him sent thither . Nay in this Case of MORLEY , if the matter charged upon him to be Committed here ( from which I shall not with the LIBELLER acquit him only because he is a PROTESTANT , considering what kind of one he shewed himself in the times of usurpation , thorough-pacedly serving of them , and what sort of one he manifests himself in the present time of faction , by those baser Offices of subornation and Perjury ministring to it , ) were any felony under Treason , I speak it with reverence , it were unjust not to send him hither to be tryed , because the Statute of Hen . the 8th for Tryal of forreign matters in England , extends expresly and only to Treasons , so that lesser Offences done here cannot be tryed there , and consequently , to have kept him in such Case on the other side from appearing here , wou'd be to hinder a malefactor from being brought to Justice , which were not Just ; But as MORLEYS Case is , being for Treason Committed here , which by that Statute may be Tryed there , the KING can Justly enough ( if He Pleases ) detain him to be Tryed in ENGLAND , or ( if he thinks fit ) as Justly too may send him hither for Tryal , for by that Statute it is in the KINGS Choise , in which of the KINGDOMS such a Case shall be Try'd ; But then if the Tryal be ordered to be there upon a Treason Committed here , the Judges in ENGLAND are therein to Govern themselves according to the Laws of Ireland , that is , they are not to adjudge any thing to be Treason , but what is so by the Law of IRELAND , or by some Act of PARLIAMENT in ENGLAND where IRELAND is named , or that is Enacted in IRELAND ; and this Rule holds concerning Pleas in discharge of Treason also , wherefore though MORLEY'S charge consists of Treasonable words only , and they really were spoken two years ago as the LIBELLER observes , whereby he was to be discharged by the late Statute in ENGLAND ( if they were alledg'd there ) yet being laid to be spoken here , where that Statute not naming IRELAND , nor being Enacted in IRELAND do's not extend , he cannot reap any Benefit by it ; From all which though I will not take upon me to conjecture , what were the Causes MORLEY was not sent hither , yet I may rationally conclude , that they cou'd not be any of those which are given by the LIBELLER for it , so as he proves to be as grosly out in his Matters of Law as he is notoriously mistaken in his matters of fact ; And where , for Conclusion of this his Paragraph , and for the bringing off Morley by it , he says , it is remarkable that what MORLEY did declare , ( I suppose he intends to the PARLIAMENT ) in relation to the Duke of ORMONDE the Lord CHANCELLOR , and Sir John Davis , he refer'd himself for , the truth of it to the Council Books or to depositions before the Council of this Kingdom ; it is more remarkable that MORLEY did declare nothing there ( whatsoever he has done elsewhere ) as to any of those Persons , save only Sir JOHN DAVIS , and as to him that he refer'd nothing to the COUNCIL BOOKS , or to depositions before the COUNCIL to prove , other than a pretended Copy he produced of the said ô Neal or TYRRELLS Examination , but of which there never was any Original in the Council books or at the Council Board , or indeed in being , so as the LIBELLER by his thus elaborately attempting to preserve MORLEYS gasping reputation , for support of his Scandalous reflections upon the Government , does but dedestroy his own Credit , and confound his own Devices .

There are two other persons , whom the LIBELLER brings by head and shoulders into this Paragraph for evidence of what he aims at by it , but he giving only surnames to them as HANLON , and MURPHY , whereby it is Impossible without more certainty , out of the herds that are of those names , to gather whom he means , and not assigning any particulars to have come from them , in proof of his General assertion which he Cites them for , by means whereof he only sets up Shadows to be contested within them ; I will therefore pass them over and come to that more solid body in the LIBELLERS single opinion of Mr. HAWKINS , whom he shews as his next and last man , but who performed such a part when he first brought himself upon the stage , as I cannot tell whether folly , or something that is worse were his greatest Vice , and therefore I will determin on neither side , but give a true account of it , as it has been collected out of the Original papers of that matter , and then let any sober and impartial man make his Judgment of it , and of him upon it , which was thus ; Mr. HAWKINS ( between whom and some of the mac GENNISES his neighbours there were some differences ) came to my Lord LIEUTENANT to the CASTLE , having made his way as being a stranger by presenting of a letter from Sir HANS HAMILTON a late member of the Council unto his GRACE , & there acquainted his Grace that one Daniel Hanvy came to him to his house in the Country , and told him of a meeting which he had a little before with one Con mac Gennis at Down-Patrick , and that among other things which at that meeting passed betwixt them , mac GENNIS engaged him to joyn with him in swearing HIS GRACE , Mr. HAWKINS and others into the Plot , and at the same time did give him a little money , and promised him a great deal more when they shou'd afterwards meet , as they then agreed to do at Dublin , where the design was to be carried on betwixt them , That with this Information Mr. HAWKINS repaired to Sir HANS HAMILTON , who advised him to carry it to my LORD LIEUTENANT where he thus brought it , hereupon my Lord LIEUTENANT caused Mr. HAWKINS to bring HANVY to him , and after his GRACE had with great privacy taken his Examination , which was much to the purpose aforesaid , he asked Mr. HAWKINS if he knew CON mac GENNIS , and where he was to be found , which he said he did very well , and that as HANVY told him , he was come to Town in order to their aforesaid appointed meeting , which was to be sometime on that or the day following , and though Mr. HAWKINS did not know the certain house where it shou'd be in , yet he would learn it from HANVY , and thereupon he proposed to his GRACE that for having more Witnesses besides HANVY of what shou'd pass at that intended meeting , his GRACE wou'd appoint another Trusty person to joyn with one NEAL mac LAUGHKIN whom Mr. HAWKINS designed to employ , for so disposing of themselves in the Room of the House where the others were to meet in , that they might ( without being observed by them ) see them , and hear the discourses betwixt them ; Which my LORD LIEUTENANT complied with , and was accordingly done , only with this Variation , that Mr. HAWKINS employed another in that service in the stead of mac LAUGHLIN , who cou'd not be found , In the mean time his GRACE kept this matter as a secret from all persons , least any disapppointment shou'd befall such a promised discovery , afterwards Mr. HAWKINS came to my LORD LIEUTENANT , and acquainted him the parties had met , and the person appointed by his GRACE , with the other whom Hawkins did employ in the Over hearing of them , came likewise , & told his Grace that they saw HANVY & another man whom he call'd CON mac GENNIS together , and heard them discourse of such designs as were at first informed , but withal that they observed and heard mac GENNIS to say at their parting to the Master of the house , who came towards the end of their discourse to them These words , take notice I never sawthis person pointing at HANVY before the last night , upon this Report brought to my Lord LIEUTENANT He ordered CON mac GENNIS to be sent for , who appeared and denied his name to be CON mac GENNIS , affirming it to be OWEN DUFFY , and proved it to be so by invincible Circumstances ; but he owned at the same time his having gone under the name of CON mac GENNIS too , and his having had the aforesaid meeting with HANVY , whom withal he protested he never saw until the night before he had the meeting with him , which with his other feigned parts , he said he was prevailed upon to Act , by the desires of one HENRY FARREL , whose reason for the same he knew not , but referr'd it to FARREL to declare : At his proceeding my Lord LIEUTENANT ( as any one wou'd be ) was strangly surprised , and the more , because his GRACE was satisfied at his first sight of the Man , who now is DUFFY , and before he named himself to be so , that he was not CON mac GENNIS whom HANVY had described , for him His GRACE had occasions to see and know long before , in the quality of a Deputy Pursuvant for dispatching of Irish Witnesses , sent for from hence into ENGLAND , but what HIS GRACE most wonder'd at was , that HANVY shou'd have affirmed as he did , his having had a familiar acquaintance for many years together with that CON mac GENNIS before , and yet that he shou'd now take this DUFFY for him ; Hereupon my Lord LIEUTENANT had HAWKINS and HANVY who were attending , called in , where HANVY upon the question put to him , declared again such his long acquaintance with CON mac GENNIS , and all the other matters touching him , and confidently affirmed , that DUFFY then present before him was the Man , and Mr. HAWKINS ( although at his first coming to my Lord LIEUTENANT , and as is before mentioned , he told His GRACE that he knew CON mac GENNIS very well , and consequently , cou'd not but at this time know that DUFFY whom he saw thus to personate him was another person ) yet as if he wou'd have had my Lord Lieutenant deceived , did suffer Duffy to pass upon His GRACE for Con mac GENNIS , without offering any thing to undeceive him , until my Lord LIEUTENANT did at last take notice to them , how that person had proved himself to be OWEN DUFFY , and how his Grace himself knew that it was not CON mac GENNIS , upon which HANVY and HAWKINS confessed themselves to be mistaken , and so in great confusion vanished ; After this scene was thus over , which in the persons and the parts of it looked the most odd , and was the least intelligible , that for a great while has been presented , my Lord LIEUTENANT conducted the whole matter to the Council , where it seemed as a perfect riddle , and because FARRELL appeared the ablest to unfold it , by giving an account how he came to make DUFFY personate CON mac GENNIS unto HANVY , he was order'd to be examined , who in his Examination and upon his Oath declared , that NEAL mac LAUGHLIN did some time before , lodging at his house , let fall expressions which gave him suspicion of HAWKINS his being upon some evil designs , and that he was confirmed therein afterwards , by lighting upon a letter from HAWKINS to mac LAUGHLIN which FARRELL produced , and HAWKINS confessed , but pretends to be an innocent end , and which directed mac LAUGHLIN to go to one RAWLINSON in Dublin for the furnishing him with money , enjoyning him afterwards to repair to HAWKINS into the North concerning the business which mac LAUGHLIN was to do for him ; That after mac LAUGHLIN ( who then went to the North accordingly ) returned unto Town , he came to Farrells house , but told him that he was to lodge no longer with him , for that he had a lodging provided in another place hard by the said RAWLINSON ; which with FARRELLS observing of mac LAUGHLIN to be flush of money , and understanding that HAWKINS was come to Town , put it out of all doubt with him that there was some mischief a contriving , which Farrell resolved to imploy himself in the finding out , and for that purpose remembring that mac LAUGHLIN had been very inquisitive of him for CON mac GENNIS , and perceiving several messengers to come to his house at divers times in a day to enquire for CON mac GENNIS , as from persons newly come out of the Country , He dogg'd some of Them to a certain House whither he prevailed with OWEN DUFFY to go with him , and if there shou'd be Occasion to take upon him the name of CON mac GENNIS , after whom this great inquiry had been , and when they came thither and a little after they had talked something loud , on purpose to be heard by an obscure man who they were told was in the next Room , that man ( who proved to be DANIEL HANVY ) hearing the name of CON mac GENNIS , came in unto them , and applying himself to DUFFY , whom he took or pretended to take for CON mac GENNIS , finding him to be called so , said to him with much kindness , you know we have great business to do , to which DUFFY answered , yes , yes , and so after having appointed to meet together the next day , they then parted , which was the only occasion , as FARREL said , of his thus perswading DUFFY to personate CON mac GENNIS unto Hanvy , and of such meeting and discourse had betwixt them , and now let any one who reads these true passages of that affair Judge , whether Mr. HAWKINS has acquitted himself like that man of honor , discretion , and ingenuity , which the LIBELLER wou'd blazon him ; and whether my Lord DUKE of ORMONDE be not a more merciful person to the DISSENTERS , than the LIBELLER wou'd seem before to represent him , since notwithstanding Mr. HAWKINS be one of the virulenst of them , and by such his proceedings appeared a very great Trifler with , if not an Affronter of GOVERNMENT , yet his GRACE let him go without inflicting any Punishment upon him for it , althô he cou'd not but take more notice of him afterwards , when an Information amounting as near to HIGH TREASON as cou'd be was given into the Council against him , and by such a Person too as Mr. Florence Weyer a Sanctified evidence in ENGLAND and who was one of the Chiefest of those Witnesses upon whose Testimonies the Titular Primate PLUNKET was found guilty in the Kings Bench there , for which reason the LIBELLER never so much as mentions WEYER here , but only takes notice of mac GENNIS and mac LAUGHLIN who swore latter in time , and much inferior in matter against HAWKINS than the other did , and as to mac LAUGHLIN it is observable that though the LIBELLER affirms he never spoke with HAWKINS but once , and then only to insinuate into his acquaintance , yet HAWKINS himself in his Examination owns to have known him and to have Employed him in his business for some years past ; And besides it is manifest by HAWKINS his above mentioned Letter to Mac LAUGHLIN ( which FARRELL produced upon his being Examined , and HAWKINS Confessed in his Examination to be his hand ) that there was a familiar acquaintance betwixt him and Mac LAWGHLIN before , which Letter , looking so suspicious , and being followed with WEYERS and the others Informations , which sounded so dangerous , my Lord LIEUTENANT and COUNCIL cou'd do no less than as they did , to Commit HAWKINS upon them , and notwithstanding the LIBELLER and his Party wou'd now , because it seems to thwart their designs , reflect upon the Government for doing of it , as too much countenancing of Informations , yet ( as has been found by late experience , ) they wou'd be apt at another time ( if it might advance their purposes ) more severely to fall upon the GOVERNMENT for not doing of it , as too great discountenancing of Evidence , so partial and so passionate are the FACTIOUS .